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Minecraft Joining Microsoft (majornelson.com)

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[–]ViolentlyCaucasian -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (21子コメント)

No smoke without fire I guess. Pretty disappointed, not as a player I was never that into minecraft but minecraft has become its own thing, mojang really don't own minecraft any more in any meaningful way, it belongs to the community.

Minecraft was a beacon of independent success, a sign of hope that a good game carefully nurtured, free, open and honest could be a success without being beholden to publishers or platform creators. Seeing it absorbed into a giant corporation is sad

[–]Bob_Fucking_Dole 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (3子コメント)

it belongs to the community.

I hate this mentality.

You drank waaaaay too much kool-aid.

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian -4 ポイント-3 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Minecraft the licence and the properity, the merchandising all belong to mojang. The community is what made the game a phenomenon, is it so unreasonable to want to see such a community driven game remain independent. As I said I'm not even that into minecraft but I love what minecraft represents (or used to I guess)

[–]danielcohenCdrShprd 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

What do you think microsoft will change that will take away from it?

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Honestly their owning it at all takes away from it, same would be true if it was Activision, EA or Sony.

Practically they say they'll support all platofrorms and I believe them but I expect to start seeing xbox exclusive features not available on PS3, PS4, iOS or Android. That's not in the spirit of minecraft

[–]SaintBlitzkriegSaintBlitzkrieg -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (7子コメント)

Not when it has become too over cumbersome for the individual behind it to maintain. While now owned by MS, it can still be everything that it is. To change how this game works would be stupid on MS' part

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (6子コメント)

I don't accept that mojang couldn't have handled it on their own. If nothing at all changes then obviously I'd have no practical issue with it, I wouldn't consider that to be even kind of guaranteed though. It still absorbs indie gamings brightest most successful light into one of gamings giant vested interests.

[–]SaintBlitzkriegSaintBlitzkrieg 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (5子コメント)

It was more Notch and Mojang. Mojang can handle the game itself without a doubt, but Notch couldn't handle the pressure of holding that game which I can understand.

No one can imagine the amount of pressure that man must have felt creating and owning a piece of that significance in gaming history.

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

He could just have left the company without selling it, i read his blog post on it and genuinely do understand where he's coming from but there are other ways to take himself out of the equation

[–]StrngBrew 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

There aren't other profitable ways to take himself out of the equation.

And this way not only does he get paid, but he also leaves the property in the hands of a company with the resources to maintain and grow it.

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

He would still have been the majority share holder and has claimed this decision isnt about money, he's already got more than he knows what to do with

[–]SaintBlitzkriegSaintBlitzkrieg 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yeah, but if I created something like this, I wouldn't just walk away and let other people just have it, I would sell it to be people I trust and to people I feel that could continue what that thing has done. He obviously felt MS was the right place for that.

Granted, many don't agree, and your opinion isn't wrong by any means, it just wasn't our decision to make. He made this decision, and MS was in the right place, in the right time, with a shit load of money.

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

He's free to make the decision and I'm plenty free to criticise it. I know why he did it I may even have done the same in his position but from the perspective of the community (games in general not just minecraft) I think there were better ways. Besides it's not like he'd just have been letting people have it, Jens has been lead dev on minecraft for nearly 3 years, it's the company he founded why wouldnt he trust them with it

[–]Mod74 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (6子コメント)

I must have missed the bit when Mincraft was free. They've been charging for it since before it was even released.

[–]MrRatt [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

It actually was free at a time. They had a browser version of it you could play. Hasn't been that way for years, but...

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

That's absolutely not what I meant and you know it

[–]Mod74 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

What did you mean by free then. Because it's never been free as in speech either.

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Free as in independent, free as in not owned by any major gaming interest or platform.

If they genuinely continue to support all platforms equally it will make little practical difference but all I care about is the image of the most successful indie company going being absorbed into one of gamings behemoths and it just looks ugly to me

[–]Mod74 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Microsoft are pretty small scale when it comes to being a publisher. Most of what they've done have been either independent or unproven IP.

I'd have to check but I think this is the first big name they've bought since Rare.

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

They're a platform owner, they're like one of the biggest 3 names in gaming

[–]killthemallseriously [非表示スコア]  (1子コメント)

When was minecraft ever free?

[–]ViolentlyCaucasian [非表示スコア]  (0子コメント)

I didn't mean monetarily